Bell of Adano - Adano no kane

…Graduated from Yale University. He served as secretary to writer Sinclair Lewis for a time, then served in World War II as a reporter for Time and Life magazines. His novel The Bells of Adano (1944), a humorous depiction of an Italian-American officer dedicated to democratizing the town in occupied Sicily, became a best-seller and won the Pulitzer Prize. Later, in 1946, he visited Hiroshima, and published Hiroshima (1946), a humanitarian account of the atomic bombing and its aftermath, in the weekly magazine The New Yorker. It was serialized in major newspapers around the country, causing a great stir, and became the catalyst for the development of peace movements such as No More Hiroshimas. …

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…イェール大学卒業。作家シンクレア･ルイスの秘書を一時務めたが，《タイム》や《ライフ》の記者として第2次大戦に従軍，占領下のシチリア島を舞台にイタリア系のアメリカ軍将校が町の民主化に献身する姿をユーモラスに描いた小説《アダノの鐘》(1944)はベストセラーになり，ピュリッツァー賞を得た。その後，1946年広島を訪れ，原爆投下とその後の状況を人道主義の立場から調査･記録した《ヒロシマ》(1946)を週刊誌《ニューヨーカー》に発表，各地の大新聞にも連載され大反響を呼び，〈ノー･モア･ヒロシマズ〉などの平和運動展開の契機となった。…

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